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Below is a family biography included in Portrait and Biographical Record of Seneca and Schuyler Counties, New York published by Chapman Publishing Co., in 1895.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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MRS. ELIZA ANN MANN. Among the aged and venerable ladies of the town of Romulus, Seneca County, is Mrs. Eliza Mann. She is the daughter of Josiah Yerkes, who was born on the 3d of August, in the opening year of this century, and died while still a young man, April 28, 1841.

Mrs. Mann, our subject, was born March 12, 1829, nearly three years after the marriage of her father, which occurred December 26, 1826. In the pride and beauty of her early womanhood, March 29, 1854, she married Thomas Mann. This marriage proved a happy one, and was blessed with the coming of nine children into the family circle. Fletcher and Sidney, the two eldest children, are residents of South Dakota. Thomas, the third son, was born October 30, 1862, and died in the same month thirty-one years later. George B. was born May 27, 1872. Madge is the wife of Frank Williams. Sarah D., born November 22, 1860, is unmarried and remains at home. Her next younger daughter, born five years later, October 25, 1865, is engaged in the noble profession of teaching. Lida, the wife of Hamlin Covert, makes her home at Ellen Beach. Minnie J., the youngest child of the family, still resides at home. Mrs. Mann remained on her father’s place until her marriage. About ten years afterward she and her family removed to their present location, a farm of eighty-three acres, one mile from Romulus.

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This family biography is one of the numerous biographies included in Portrait and Biographical Record of Seneca and Schuyler Counties, New York published in 1895. 

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